Fending device.



M. COHEN.

PENDING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 20, 1913.

Patented May 19, 1914.

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PENDING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 20, 1913 1 97,537, Patented May19, 1914.

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W/TNESSES IWVEWTUI? UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAX COHEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO HIMSELF AND ONE-HALF 'lO BENJAMIN BORER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FENDING DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MAX COHEN, a subject ofthe Czar of Russia, at present residing in the city of New York, boroughof Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a. newand Improved Fending Device, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

My invention relates to a fending device adapted to be applied to streetcars, automobile cars, or other vehicles, and the invention moreespecially relates to a device .of this character having a movableshield mounted thereon and adapted to be automatically dropped in frontof the fender proper, to shield a person struck the latter to preventthe person from being rolled or thrown to a position to be run over bythe car.

The fending device carrying the shield is mounted in a novel manner andis capable of vertical and pivotal movement, means being provided tonormally sustain the fender proper disposed in a downwardly in clinedposition to contact by its lower forward end with any person struck bythe said fender, so that the impact will release the fender, and permitit to assume a more vertical position and rock rearwardly. The movementof the fender releases the shield and permits the latter to drop infront of the fender and hold and carry the person struck. I

The invention will be particularly eX plained in the specificdescription following.

Reference is to be had to the aceompanying drawings forming a partofthis specification, in which sinular characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a fending device embodying my invention,showing the same applied to a street car, the shield associated with thefender proper being in a raised position; Fig. 2 is a partiallysectional side elevation showing the fender proper in the rearward lowerposition and the shield dropped in front of the same; Fig. 3 is a planview with the parts in the position shown in Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a frontview of the fender proper detached and showing an arrangement ofopenings therein for the passage of light from lamps positioned as on anautomobile; and Fig. 5 is a Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 20, 1913.

Patented May 19, 1914. Serial No. 802,054.

vertical section of the cushion of the fender proper, the viewindicating the character of the light openings.

The fending device may be applied to a street car A, or to an automobileor other vehicle, and may be supported thereon by any suitable means.For the purpose of illustration I have shown a transversely curvedbracket 10, presenting at each end forwardly disposed side arms 10 andhereinafter referred to as a supporting frame. To the forward ends ofthe arms 10% a transverse rod 11 is secured on which arms 12 arepivoted, between the ends of said arms 12. The forward ends of the arms12 are united by a cross bar 13, which is embraced by vertical keepers14 on the back frame 15 of a cushion or fender proper, 16. At the top ofthe fender 16 a shield 17 is hinged as at 18, said shield being curvedforwardly and downwardly. The shield 17, when in the raised position,rests adjacent to its hinges 18 on the upwardly extending members 19formed on the back frame 15 of the fender proper 10, and it is providedadjacent to the hinges with a transverse U- bar 20, which constitutes ahook adapted to cngage over the resilient upper ends 21 of sustainingarms 21, said arms 21 being dis posed at each side to extend forwardlyfrom a frame element hereinafter referred to.

The arrangement is such that the fender proper 16 will normally projectdownwardly and forwardly, as in Fig. 1, with the shield 17 in the raisedposition, the U-bar 20 or other equivalent hook elements engaging overthe rearwardly and upwardly inclined ends 21 of the arms 21. Upon impactof the fending device against a person or other obstruction, the fender16 will be forced rearwardly, being capable of a rocking movement on thecross bar 13. When nearing the rearward position, the lower end of thefender 16 will contact with the ground or car track, and the fender willassume avertical position, being free to have a vertically slidingmovement in addition to its rocking movement on the cross bar 13, byreason of the keepers 14 embracing said cross bar. The rising movementof the upper end of the fender 16 will detach the U- bar 20 from thesustaining arms 21, and the shield 17 will be thus released and willdrop to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2,

in front of the fender 16, thcrebv rasnn )rovided with wheels or rollers30 2: l a l the person Silttt'li and securely holding him to prevent hisbeing rolled in a position to be run over. i

It is to be understood that the sustaining arms 21 have a strength tomaintain the fender 16 and shield, but the outer ends 21 thereof and theadjacent portions of the arms will have sutlicicnt resiliency to yieldto the strains exerted by the rearward and upward movement of the saidfender, to permit the release of the U-bar 20.

To limit the rearward swinging movement of the fender 16, a stop isprovided on the securing frame. As here shown, the stop con'iprises aU-shaped frame member 29, the cross bar 22- of which ranges transverselyat the back of the fender 16, and said frame is formed upon or securedto hangers 23 which depend from a cross bar 2% and suitable connectionis made with the securing frame or bracket 10. In the example shown,rivets l-t or equivalent expedients are employed to secure the hangers23 to the arms 10.

In order to provide for the adjustment of the cross bar 13 on which thefender 16 has swinging and sliding movement, the rear ends of the arms12 carrying said cross bar are pivoted, as at 25, to lugs 26 on a. crossbar 27, and to said cross bar a threaded spindle 98 is swiveled, saidspindle taking into the cross bar 4, and the said spindle at the upperend having a hand wheel 29 to turn the same and thus raise or lower therear ends of the arms 12 and thus raise or lower the height of the crossbar 18. The arms 21, with thecnds of which the shield 17 has hookedengagement, are secured preferably to the cross bar 2-1 as for instanceby rivets 21". The fender 16 is provided with openings 81 extendingthrough the same from front to rear, and the position of these openingsis determined by the position of the head light or head lights on thecar, au tomobile or other vehicle to which the invention is applied. InFig. 4, I have shown the openings spaced to conform to the usualposition of the two head lights on an automobile.

As will be seen from Fig. 5, the openings 31 for the passage of lightrays are given a downward inclination from front to rear relatively tothe general plane of the fender 16, in order that when the said fenderis disposed in. a normal position, as in Fig. l, the openings willbehorizontal.

The mounting of the fender 16 and the arrangement of the elements 20-21are such that the said fender will be maintained with its lower endabove the ground or above the track rails I3, in the ease of a railwaytrack, so that the fending device will not be subject to the unevennessof a road or track. The lower end of the fender 16 is preferably tocontact. with the ground or track when the said fender drops to arearward position.

The described construction affords a practical means for carrying myinvention into effect, and I would state in conclusion, that I do notlimit myself strictly to the mechanical details herein illustrated,since manifestly the same can be considerably varied without departurefrom the spiritv of the invention.

Having thus described my invention 1 claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. In a fending device, a supporting frame, a fender proper, verticallyadjustable supporting means on the said frame on which the said fenderis mounted for swinging and vertically sliding movement relatively tosaid supporting means, and means for temporarily holding the fenderproper against movement on said adjustable means.

2. In a fending device for vehicles, a securing frame, side armspivotally mounted on said frame to rock vertically, a cross barextending transversely between the side arms, means for moving the armson their pivots to raise'or lower the cross bar, a fender proper havingkeepers at .the rear sides thereof, through which the said cross barpasses, to permit a swinging and sliding movement of said fender properrelatively to the cross bar, a stop in the rear of the fender proper tolimit its rearward 'movement, a shield hinged to the fender proper, atthe upper end thereof, and adapted to drop to a lowered position infront of the fender proper, a hook on said shield, and arms on the saidframe extending forwardly and provided with upwardly extending membersadapted to be engaged by the hook on the shield.

3. In a fending device, a supporting frame, a fender proper movablymounted on 'said frame to yield under the force of impact, a shieldhinged to the fender proper to drop from a raised position to a loweredposition in front of the fender proper, rests on the fender properagainst which the said shield contacts when in the raised position, andco-acting releasable members on the frame and shield, to hold the shieldand fender proper in the raised position, said members comprisingresilient arms having upwardly extending ends, and a downturnedU-element on the shield.

4. In a fending device, a supporting frame, a fender proper movablymounted on said frame to yield to the force of impact. a shield hingedto the fender proper, at each end. to assume a raised or loweredposition, a U-bar on the shield adjacent to the hinged end, and arms onthe frame terminating in resilient member adapted to be engaged by thesaid U-bar.

' on their pivots 5. In a fending device, a rigid supporting frame,fender-sup orting side arms pivoted between their en .5 on said rigidframe, a cross bar uniting said side arms at their forward ends,adjustin devices at the rear ends of the arms to roc the same verticallyto vary the height of the cross bar, a fender slidably engaging thecross bar to move up and down relatively thereto and adapted to swing ina vertical plane on said bar, a rigid stop projecting forwardly belowthe supporting arm to arrest the rearward swinging of the lender, ashield pivotally carried by the fender above said cross bar, and latchmeans for the shield releasable by the lender to per mit the shield todrop.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

MAX COHEN.

Witnesses:

J. L. MGAULIFFE, PHILIPD. ROLLHAUB.

